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I’ve just installed Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin. If all goes well, something to do with this post should show up on my Twitter thingie.

Edit: Holy shit it worked!

This is directed to those of you who might only read these notes on Facebook. You may (or may not, which is more likely) be interested to know that I don’t write these on Facebook; they get pulled over from my blaugh at www.canspice.org.

If you’re at all interested in following along, I suggest subscribing to my RSS feed. What is RSS? It’s a standard way for websites (and other such technologies) to publish updates automatically, and software polls RSS feeds on a periodic basis to retrieve these updates. Using an aggregator (also referred to as an RSS reader or news reader), you can keep up-to-date with a number of websites at the same time without having to visit them individually. Personally, I use Vienna on OS X. Other OS X RSS readers include NetNewsWire and NewsFire. Web-based RSS readers include Google Reader, which allows you to access your RSS feeds from any Internet-connected computer.

So Facebook readers, you don’t need to follow along on Facebook, you can use a separate program and collect updates from all kinds of websites in one convenient location!

This might be the quickest blog software upgrade I’ve done. WordPress 2.5 was announced 12 days ago, and I’ve just upgraded to it. As always, the upgrade was painless, but if you notice anything strange, please let me know.

Edit: Fixed a problem with the Archives page.

An administrative note to those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed: please switch over to use my new FeedBurner feed. Let me know how it works out — I’ll switch back to the standard WordPress feed if things go awry.

If you weren’t able to get through to canspice.org yesterday, it’s because my hosting provider updated the operating system on the server. The upgrade went a little less smoothly than expected, but Geof plowed through the night and we were the sixth domain restored.

I want to take the opportunity to publicly thank Geof for all his efforts. Not many people would stay up until two in the morning to get stuff fixed, especially when they have to work the next day. Many thanks, Geof!